By Austin Tedesco and Hilary Sargent
Boston.com Staff | 03.21.15 | 1:33 PM
Seven people were injured Saturday in a ski-lift accident on Sugarloaf Mountain in Maine, the Sugarloaf ski resort said in a statement.
The accident took place around 11:30 a.m. at the Carrabassett Valley resort, about 200 miles north of Boston, when the lift started going backward, according to the statement. The King Pine lift, which was carrying about 230 riders, was fully evacauted after rolling back a distance of nine chairs.
Three injured people were taken by ambulance to local hospitals without life-threatening injuries, according to the statement.
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Sugarloaf did not immediately return a call for comment.
After a 2011 cable derailment at the Sugarloaf resort, the Portland Press-Herald cited a ski safety expert who reviewed two years of state inspection reports on the resort’s chairlifts and said they highlighted a surprising number of problems. There were issues with “nearly every lift,” the paper quoted the expert, Richard Penniman, as saying.
Resort representatives said at the time that all of the problems had been addressed, and that all of the problems were routine maintenance issues.
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